**NOTE ON THE CHAPTER "FINANCIAL QUESTIONS"**

One must take advantage of this and reduce its autonomy in the sense of subordinating it not directly to the Council of Labor and Defense, but through the People's Commissariat of Railways (or through the People's Commissariat of Trade?)

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**NOTE FROM A. B. KHALATOV***

November 10, 1921

Comrade Khalatov,

Provide a note (concerning the reserve fund of 16 million rubles) to the secretary of the Central Committee, Mikhailov, today itself, with a precise proposal.

Lenin.

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**LETTER TO N. I. GORBUNOV****

November 12, 1921

Comrade Gorbunov!

I request that you read Enclosure 1 and direct it to Comrade Alsky for his familiarization and that of the members of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Finance, and then to Comrade Kamenev, chairman of the commission, which probably will have to touch upon this question.

I have known Chebotarev since the 1880s from the matter concerning my older brother, Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, who was hanged in 1887. Chebotarev is unquestionably an honest man. Politically he was a Cadet during the era of the first revolution and afterwards, but not an active one. I think that one can and should rely upon his conscientiousness. Now, it seems, he is politically close to the "Smena Vekh" group.

Lenin.

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*The note was written in the hand of L. A. Fotieva. Ed.*

**The letter is printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.*